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Nigeria: 90% of Boko Haram's Victims Are Muslims - President
Vanguard, 4 February 2020
President Mohammadu Buhari Tuesday declared that 90 per cent of all Boko Haram victims in the past years have been Muslims. Read more »
90% of Boko Haram's Victims Are Muslims - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said this in an article in Christianity Today on the death of Lawan Andimi, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria. Buhari said the beheading of the religious leader by Boko Haram was aimed at pitting Christians against Muslims. The group has killed tens of thousands and displaced 2.3 million.
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Nigeria: Atiku Condemns Buhari's Article On Boko Haram's Victims
This Day, 5 February 2020
Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has condemned the opinion article by President Mohammadu Buhari published in a United States magazine that 90 percent of people killed by Boko… Read more »
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Nigeria: Has Counter-Terrorism Become a Profitable Business?
ISS, 4 February 2020
Despite massive expenditure by the Nigerian government over the past decade, counter-terrorism operations by security forces have achieved limited success and the country is still… Read more »
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Nigeria: 90% of Boko Haram Victims Are Muslims - Buhari
Daily Trust, 5 February 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari says 90 percent of the victims of Boko Haram are Muslims contrary to views that the group is primarily targeting Christians. Read more »
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Nigeria: Buhari Dishonest On Claim 90% Victims of Boko Haram Are Muslims - CAN
Vanguard, 4 February 2020
Christians Association of Nigeria, CAN, has refuted President Muhammadu Buhari's claim that 90 per cent of Boko Haram victims were Muslims, saying he was being dishonest about the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Who Shall Overcome? - Islamic Extremism in Northern Nigeria
Premium Times, 31 January 2020
While appropriate military measures are required to end the insurgency, the importance of more inclusive statecraft and economic policy cannot be over-emphasised. It is not Islamic… Read more »
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Nigeria: Insecurity - CAN Right to 'Arouse Popular Consciousness' - Presidency
Premium Times, 4 February 2020
Members of the RCCG, TEAP Zone, marching through Garki during the prayer protest called for by CAN. Pic credit: Tosin Omoniyi Read more »
InFocus
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Pastor Lawani Andimi was kidnapped in Adamawa State and held for ransom by Boko Haram on January 3, 2020. His killing has been described by President Muhammadu Buhari as "cruel, ... Read more »
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Hundreds of villagers that abandoned their houses in Michika, Adamawa State as suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked their communities have started returning home after the army ... Read more »
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Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents have killed at least four humanitarian workers and abducted two others along a highway in the northern part of Borno State. This comes ... Read more »
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Mohammed Ibn-Chambas, UN special representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, has said that the United Nations and the European Union are ready to ... Read more »
